A Boulder County barn with an eye on the future — just completed by Idiam Architects on Sugarloaf Mountain

[media-credit id=39 align=”alignleft” width=”270″][/media-credit] The dominant feature is the sloping roof, which captures wind from the west and keeps the horses gust-free. Four horses live in the barn.

Just wanted to post a few more photos for a story on a barn constructed in Boulder County that has a particularly interesting design. I’ll have a larger piece officially published Sunday, Feb. 10.

The barn was designed by Idiam Architecture and it sits on the top of a hill on Sugarloaf Mountain. The property is 25 acres and located on the site of the 1989 Black Tiger fire, just about three miles away from last summer’s Fourmile Canyon blaze.

I’ll mix a few photos of the finished project with a couple of construction shots to give a sense of how it all came together.

And I’ll drop a link to the other article here when it’s ready.

[media-credit id=39 align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] Here’s a construction shot. You can see how the roof is put together. It consists of two large steel pieces, fabricated off-site and dropped on top via crane.

[media-credit id=39 align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] The barn is actually three buildings set to form a courtyard, of sorts. The horse barn, the hay barn and a 300-square-foot studio/guesthouse. They are hunkered into the ground at different depths and there is an effect that they are collectively pushing out of the hill, just like boulders do. It’s an organic twist.

[media-credit id=39 align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] An interior view of the horse barn. It’s tough enough to house some rough horseplay, but it’s beautful, too. The gates are made of pine. The opposing walls are lined with slats of Douglas fir.

[media-credit id=39 align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] This is the studio under construction. All three buildings share the sloped roof. Idiam’s owners, Casey Clifford and Miles La Hue, do a lot of the work themselves. Miles drove his tractor around the site frequently. It’s unusal to have designers do so much of the craftsmanship themselves.

[media-credit id=39 align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] This photo is a little hard to read, but worth a try. It’s a shot looking up at the loft bed in the studio. It’s in the front, with an amazing view toward the east. At the property, the view stretches from downtown Boulder to the Continental Divide.

Here is how it all comes together. This photo was shot by Denver Post photographer R.J. Sangosti Feb. 1. There are more of his pictures with the story coming Sunday.

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